Vortex Engine is a set of 10 works of complex post-IDM that explores musical extremes: sparse/dense, random/ordered, dissonant/consonant, melodic/noise-driven, chaotic/grooved, ridiculous/sublime. The sensibility of post-Webernian Euro avant garde (Stockhausen, Xenakis, Boulez, et al) enfolded into the world of electronica. Vortex Engine is not easy-listening music. It is challenging, boundary-pushing, even at times disturbing.
But rachMiel is a performer and never loses sight of his goal to entertain his audience. Adventurous listeners -- especially those with a taste for the musically outré -- will find vast sonic pleasures in Vortex Engine, and perhaps even an entryway to new planes of musical consciousness.